For those following me on Facebook, you already saw the announcement of my third child's birth. Yes! I gave birth at home, Friday the 7th of August at 5:09 am, to a little girl weighting 3,340kg and 50 cm tall. After many talks, and nearly 3 hours after her birth, to call her:

Alice, Thémis

With surnames meaning in greek Truth and Order/Divine Justice, I pray that she will follow a virtuous path in her life. But well... she's the one who will decide!

When Jonathan went to the town hall to register her birth, he was told that she was the second child born in the city this year. In fact, there is no maternity ward in Oberursel. And if her certificate number is the #6, it's because Germans living abroad can declare their kids in their home town... To have a better idea, here are the number of children born in Oberursel the last years (thanks Graham for the info):

We can see that a birth registration is quite uncommon for the administrative workers! Speaking of that, we were lucky that the one who registered Alice knows French, so that we didn't have to pay for translating all our French papers. [I will talk about that in a future post.]

She's 10 days old today and I'm happy to say that she sleeps rather well in the night, between two "drinks", and that she's quiet and aware of her surroundings. She seems to have understood that her brother and her sister love her very much. Especially when they sing lullabies during the rare times she cries (meaning when I'm showering or in the toilets... is that one of her special gifts to know of those moments?), and when they pepper her with kisses. In short, she's already bringing much happiness!